Assortment of some of my Black powder hands guns, and a couple others. Coolest piece to me is the hanging upside down plastic pirate cap pistole ( center) I bought at Pirate of the Caribbean gift shop at Disneyland in the early 1960's with my Grandparents who lived 20 miles away from the magic kingdom.
A junk New Orleans Ace kit pistol , bought at a gun show missing the ram rod and pipe, a loose barrel, and no wood stock. Was turned into a English type screw off barrel Loader. The Home made Turned and Tapper swamped canon ended barrel was a old 7/8'' octagon .30 cal. rifle barrel that I had cut down for its smaller cal. .The original barrel were of .45 cal. and with a 1/2-20 breach plug thread on the frame, it did not leave much chamber seal as the inter diameter of a National fine 1/2'' thread had a minor diameter almost at .45 diameter. And really the quality of the original barrel was over threaded deeper than the breach threads and very loose. I threaded the new barrel breech with a H1 factor pitch tap, H1 tap's are much more precise in tolerance . They tighten up that slop that you get from standard H3 taps. The trigger was hand checkered and the hammer was face carved. The Michigan whitetail deer antler was one in a thousand. To find the right thickness and width, with not a lot a curve took 3 years of looking . The brass barrel lug wrench was fashioned by me , but Wire Burned EDM on the correct barrel tapper octagon by Wolverine EDM of Grand Rapids Michigan. Shout out to Dave as he did the lay out and hit it dead on. This fun little belt pistol is a peach.
The single white handled pistol pictured is New Orleans Ace Pistol found recently at local gun auction, missing both wood and barrel. I made new out of original .30 cal. barrel buddy Norm Brooks gave me. I manage to get three barrels made out of it, as seen in the picture of three. I find these when I can at flea markets and Gun shows, and love making them. The top one in the picture of three s in process to finish. The deer antlers used are Michigan white tails, and take a whole lot of looking to find the right one. This was in a bucket of cuts for dog chews, sold at flea market.
A junk New Orleans Ace kit pistol , bought at a gun show missing the ram rod and pipe, a loose barrel, and no wood stock. Was turned into a English type screw off barrel Loader. The Home made Turned and Tapper swamped canon ended barrel was a old 7/8'' octagon .30 cal. rifle barrel that I had cut down for its smaller cal. .The original barrel were of .45 cal. and with a 1/2-20 breach plug thread on the frame, it did not leave much chamber seal as the inter diameter of a National fine 1/2'' thread had a minor diameter almost at .45 diameter. And really the quality of the original barrel was over threaded deeper than the breach threads and very loose. I threaded the new barrel breech with a H1 factor pitch tap, H1 tap's are much more precise in tolerance . They tighten up that slop that you get from standard H3 taps. The trigger was hand checkered and the hammer was face carved. The Michigan whitetail deer antler was one in a thousand. To find the right thickness and width, with not a lot a curve took 3 years of looking . The brass barrel lug wrench was fashioned by me , but Wire Burned EDM on the correct barrel tapper octagon by Wolverine EDM of Grand Rapids Michigan. Shout out to Dave as he did the lay out and hit it dead on. This fun little belt pistol is a peach.
The single white handled pistol pictured is New Orleans Ace Pistol found recently at local gun auction, missing both wood and barrel. I made new out of original .30 cal. barrel buddy Norm Brooks gave me. I manage to get three barrels made out of it, as seen in the picture of three. I find these when I can at flea markets and Gun shows, and love making them. The top one in the picture of three s in process to finish. The deer antlers used are Michigan white tails, and take a whole lot of looking to find the right one. This was in a bucket of cuts for dog chews, sold at flea market.
